Costume of our proud soldiers of Siachen must need to be implanted by power full tracking chips with on and off feature to maintain privacy as well its activation can provide vital gate way to save them during any rescue operation just in time. An estimated 8,000 troops have died on the glacier since 1984, almost all of them from avalanches, landslides, frostbite, altitude sickness or heart failure rather than combat. recently. 10 soldiers trapped in avalanche in Siachen Glacier: Ten Army soldiers, including a junior commissioned officer, were buried alive when a massive avalanche swept through their post in the Siachen Glacier area at a height of 19,600 feet in eastern Ladakh on Wednesday morning. Col. S.D. Goswami, defence spokesman at the Army’s Northern Command in Udhampur, said: “Rescue operations by specialised Army and Air Force teams are under way.” Army sources said the avalanche hit the glacier’s southern side at dawn. Col. Goswami said the post was manned by the JCO and nine soldiers at that time. The Siachen Glacier is in the eastern Karakoram range in the Himalayas, northeast of Point NJ9842, where the Line of Control ends. As both India and Pakistan claim it, this stretch of snow is called the world’s highest battlefield. Altogether 869 Indian Army personnel have lost their lives in Siachen due to climatic conditions since 1984. Source: asianage.com/ Soldier found alive under 20 feet snow in Siachen Glacier: In what can only be described as a miracle, one of the Indian Army soldiers trapped and buried under a sheet of ice at the Siachen Glacier was pulled out alive by Army
rescuers. The bodies of the other nine soldiers were also pulled out. The soldier who was found alive was identified as Lance Naik Hanumanthappa. The Udhampur-based Northern Command said he was being rushed to hospital and described his condition as critical. The Army had to burrow through more than 20 feet of ice and snow before finding the soldier and nine other bodies. The ten soldiers were buried under a wall of ice that collapsed on them at the icy glacier which is the world's highest and coldest battlefield. The very fact that a soldier was found alive at such icy depths after a few days is being described as a medical miracle. However, the Northern Command confirmed the deaths of the other nine soldiers. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had earlier condoled the deaths of all the soldiers after authorities had virtually given up hope of finding them alive. However, the Army had persisted with its rescue efforts. Source: The Asian Age
